Frame from surveillance video obtained by KPRC 2 and posted on TikTok (@kprc2news). The original clip is vertical, so the frame is shown on a blurred background.
A stolen car that a Houston police officer tried to stop on Sunday night hit a curb on Scott Street, left the ground, cleared the front of a parked blue vehicle and went into a building. Surveillance video shows a man in a white shirt near that vehicle knocked backward to the ground as the car passes.
KPRC 2 obtained the footage and posted it on TikTok. The station reported that the crash happened around 10 p.m. on Oct. 11 in the 9700 block of Scott Street in southeast Houston, and that a Houston Police Department sergeant at the scene said two customers were struck by the car. Both were taken to a hospital in stable condition.
@kprc2news Stolen car goes airborne during a police chase in Houston. View on TikTok
Surveillance video obtained by KPRC 2, posted on TikTok by @kprc2news. The featured image is a frame from the same clip.
What the video shows
A vehicle enters the upper-left corner of the frame, strikes a curb and goes airborne, according to KPRC 2’s description of the footage. It passes over the front of the parked blue vehicle before hitting the building. The clip is grainy and shot from a steep angle, and the car shows up mostly as headlight streaks and flying debris. KPRC 2’s reporting doesn’t give a speed, a pursuit length, or a make and model for the stolen car.
Who was where
Three accounts of the scene don’t line up. HPD initially described the location as a neighborhood hangout spot and the two injured people as customers. A worker at a nearby gas station told KPRC 2 the building is empty and described the injured people’s location differently. The video shows one man, in a white shirt, falling backward as the car goes by.
KPRC 2 has not confirmed whether the injured people were inside a vehicle, outside the building or somewhere else, and authorities have not said whether the man in the white shirt is one of the two taken to the hospital. Police have not said what kind of business used to operate in the building.
The stop and the charges
According to the HPD sergeant, the officer spotted the vehicle, ran its license plate and learned it had been reported stolen earlier that Sunday. The officer turned on the emergency lights and siren, and the driver kept going. Police say the driver turned onto a side street, lost control and hit the building, striking another parked vehicle on the way. The stolen car caught fire, and the Houston Fire Department responded.
The driver was the only occupant and was still inside when officers arrived. The driver suffered superficial cuts and was treated at a hospital. HPD says the driver faces charges of felony evading, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and reckless driving. Police have not released the driver’s name, and as with anyone charged, the driver is presumed innocent.
Texas Penal Code Section 38.04 makes fleeing a peace officer a Class A misdemeanor by default and a felony when the person uses a vehicle while in flight. The statute raises the grade again if another person suffers serious bodily injury as a direct result of the officer’s attempt to apprehend the fleeing driver. Reports so far say only that the two hospitalized people are in stable condition.
We covered a stolen truck towing an influencer’s boat as it fled HPD in 2024, and a 140 mph Arkansas chase that ended in a rollover on dash cam this spring.
KPRC 2 says it is still working to learn who the two injured people are. The reports so far don’t list a court date.
Sources: KPRC 2/Click2Houston report, Oct. 12, 2026; KPRC 2 surveillance video on TikTok; Texas Penal Code Section 38.04.
Should Houston officers keep chasing a car that is only known to be stolen through streets with businesses open at 10 p.m., or is a plate check and a follow-up arrest the better call?
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